Norrey Ford

Had success, and the struggle for success, spoiled Martin Kennedy? To most people, even those who had known him longest and best, he was a monster --arrogant, unfeeling, caring for nothing and no one but the huge department store he had built up from nothing? But to Vicki Laidlaw, he was an unhappy, lonely man -- the man she loved and whom she was convinced she could make happy? That was why she had accepted his proposal of marriage --a marriage, he had made it plain, that he had planned only as a gesture of defiance to Stephanie Joyce, the beautiful actress who had so publicly jilted him, and to which he was bringing no love? In the face of all these odds, how could Vicki possibly hope to succeed?

The past beckoned and Jacky answered As long as she could remember, Jacqueline had longed to see the old house that her father had spoken of so often. Timberfold was her only tie with the past, a dream that had begun before she had been born. Now, if she chose, Guy Clarke was ready to make the place her own. But that would mean giving up everything that Jacky had worked so long for--including Alan Broderick. It wasn't an easy decision to make....

Her life seemed full of obstacles Sally Gaskell had become a nurse when the man she loved married her half sister, Jeannie. When Jeannie was injured falling from a hayloft, Sally had serious misgivings about returning home to care for her. All the same, Sally enjoyed seeing her beloved Cumberland again and visiting Skidda, the farm she had inherited. However, she found the tenant who rented the place, Ross More, as stony as the land he worked.

"My trouble seems to annoy you." Jan didn't need reminding of her carelessness by the handsome arrogant Italian who'd witnessed the theft of her purse. Bad enough that she was stranded in Rome. However, Marco Cellini did offer a solution. Jan was to spend her remaining holiday on his island as companion to his mother during the absence of his sister, Bianca. But where was his sister? And why did Jan have to masquerade in Bianca's clothes?

The Guarded Gates The assignment in Spain was a challenge and Dionis was assured by her sister that her new fiance had the authority to make changes on behalf of the owner. But Don Juan Vicente de Velez y Stebelo knew nothing of the plans to redecorate his villa, as Dionis discovered at their first, eventful meeting. Pay Me Tomorrow Ismay had gone to see Keith Otterbury on a matter pertaining to her sister when he made his preposterous offer. The little she had heard of him hadn't been good, so his offer of marriage to save her family from financial disaster had to be regarded with suspicion. But did she really have any choice in the matter? The Darling Pirate Escaping the unwanted attentions of a suitor, Maggie Jefferson left London for a position in Jersey, in one of the island's luxury hotels. The first person she met was Alain Hautger, who enjoyed a vagabond existence in spite of the earnest efforts of others to reform him. But was he really as carefree as he seemed?